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POV06: Families by Number of Working Family Members and Family Structure: 2008

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2009 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

(Numbers in thousands)

  Families (total) (10) Married-couple families (11) Families with a male householder, no wife present Families with a female householder, no husband present
All income levels Below 150% of poverty (5) Percentage below 150% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 150% of poverty (5) Percentage below 150% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 150% of poverty (5) Percentage below 150% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 150% of poverty (5) Percentage below 150% of poverty (6)

White alone, not Hispanic
Families, total (10)
(Counts of families are obtained
by counting the householder from each family.) 		54,450 6,423 11.8 44,281 3,369 7.6 3,069 659 21.5 7,100 2,395 33.7
 
Families with no workers (16) 		8,194 2,375 29.0 6,652 1,318 19.8 390 246 63.1 1,152 811 70.4
Families with at least one worker (16) 46,255 4,048 8.8 37,629 2,051 5.5 2,679 413 15.4 5,947 1,584 26.6
      Only one working family member 15,853 3,013 19.0 10,321 1,278 12.4 1,573 349 22.2 3,958 1,386 35.0
      Two or more working family members 30,402 1,035 3.4 27,308 773 2.8 1,106 64 5.8 1,989 198 10.0
 
Families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		15,996 4,502 28.1 11,876 2,175 18.3 1,035 486 47.0 3,085 1,841 59.7
      No part-time or part-year workers 8,194 2,375 29.0 6,652 1,318 19.8 390 246 63.1 1,152 811 70.4
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 7,802 2,127 27.3 5,224 857 16.4 645 240 37.3 1,933 1,029 53.3
          One part-time or part-year worker 5,076 1,676 33.0 2,993 560 18.7 501 206 41.2 1,581 909 57.5
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 2,726 451 16.5 2,232 296 13.3 144 34 23.6 351 120 34.3
Families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		38,453 1,921 5.0 32,405 1,194 3.7 2,034 172 8.5 4,015 555 13.8
      One full-time year-round worker 23,076 1,783 7.7 18,127 1,081 6.0 1,582 162 10.2 3,367 540 16.0
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		10,777 1,337 12.4 7,329 717 9.8 1,072 143 13.3 2,377 477 20.1
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		12,299 446 3.6 10,799 364 3.4 510 19 3.8 990 63 6.4
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 15,377 138 0.9 14,277 113 0.8 452 10 2.3 648 15 2.3
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		12,605 116 0.9 11,717 93 0.8 377 9 2.5 511 13 2.5
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		2,772 22 0.8 2,560 20 0.8 75 1 1.2 137 2 1.3
 
Families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		22,873 2,595 11.3 18,583 1,240 6.7 1,230 261 21.2 3,059 1,094 35.8
      One part-time or part-year worker 17,605 2,082 11.8 14,103 894 6.3 989 223 22.6 2,513 965 38.4
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 5,268 513 9.7 4,481 346 7.7 241 38 15.5 546 129 23.6

Poverty Footnotes

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